top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-02-14

European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-end encryption

https://www.eureporter.co/world/human-rights-category/european-court-of-human-rights-echr/2024/02/14/european-court-of-human-rights-bans-weakening-of-secure-end-to-endencryption-the-end-of-eus-chat-control-csar-mass-surveillance-plans/

2 years ago

1673 upvotes – 258 comments

Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork

https://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2024-February/K5IC6VYO2PB7N4HRP2FUQIBIBCGP4WAU.html

2 years ago

1131 upvotes – 475 comments

Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1757600075281547344

2 years ago

769 upvotes – 453 comments

Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’

https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-the-proton-the-most-complicated-thing-imaginable-20221019/

2 years ago

612 upvotes – 567 comments

Bob Moore, who founded Bob's Red Mill, has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/13/business/bob-moore-dead.html

2 years ago

574 upvotes – 295 comments

YC: Requests for Startups

https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs

2 years ago

514 upvotes – 551 comments

Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/conformant-gl46-on-the-m1.html

2 years ago

498 upvotes – 113 comments

Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally

https://github.com/reorproject/reor

2 years ago

411 upvotes – 102 comments

100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ibm-history

2 years ago

342 upvotes – 180 comments

Apple has not fixed the macOS audio left/right balance bug for nearly 10 years

https://twitter.com/ffaebi/status/1757669861377949930

2 years ago

336 upvotes – 231 comments

Google has removed Conversations_im from the Play Store

https://gultsch.social/@daniel/111929074071688694

2 years ago

329 upvotes – 176 comments

YouTube Oddities

https://github.com/mattwright324/youtube-metadata/wiki/YouTube-Oddities

2 years ago

318 upvotes – 148 comments

The Matrix Trashfire

https://blog.koehntopp.info/2024/02/13/the-matrix-trashfire.html

2 years ago

308 upvotes – 213 comments

Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1219945/full

2 years ago

303 upvotes – 191 comments

I Fucking Hate Jira (2022)

https://ifuckinghatejira.com

2 years ago

280 upvotes – 281 comments

Bioluminescent petunias now available for U.S. market

https://lgrmag.com/news/light-bio-to-introduce-bioluminescent-petunias-into-u-s-market/

2 years ago

279 upvotes – 190 comments

Show HN: Play the game I'm developing directly on its website

https://athenacrisis.com

2 years ago

276 upvotes – 90 comments

Satya Nadella uses an IBM AS/400 in 1993

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/satya-nadella-uses-an-ibm-as400-in

2 years ago

254 upvotes – 147 comments

Only real people can patent inventions – not AI, US Government says

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/14/tech/billions-in-ai-patents-get-new-regulations/index.html

2 years ago

237 upvotes – 170 comments

Reverse-engineering an encrypted IoT protocol

https://smlx.dev/posts/goodwe-sems-protocol-teardown/

2 years ago

232 upvotes – 40 comments

I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months

https://shadesofgreaves.substack.com/p/how-i-grew-my-substack-from-439-to

2 years ago

228 upvotes – 70 comments

Protein biomarkers predict dementia 15 years before diagnosis in new study

https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/?newsItem=8a17841a8d79730b018d9e2bbb0e054b

2 years ago

225 upvotes – 47 comments

Not all TLDs are Created Equal

https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2024/02/13/not-all-tlds-are-created-equal.html

2 years ago

225 upvotes – 277 comments

Machine Assisted Proof [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AayZuuDDKP0

2 years ago

223 upvotes – 81 comments

Waymo recalls software after two self-driving cars hit the same truck

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/14/business/waymo-recalls-software-after-two-self-driving-cars-hit-the-same-truck/index.html

2 years ago

212 upvotes – 79 comments

Quarto

https://quarto.org/

2 years ago

205 upvotes – 61 comments

Stable pseudonyms create a more civil environment than real names: study (2021)

https://theconversation.com/online-anonymity-study-found-stable-pseudonyms-created-a-more-civil-environment-than-real-user-names-171374

2 years ago

205 upvotes – 86 comments

BASE TTS: The largest text-to-speech model to-date

https://amazon-ltts-paper.com/

2 years ago

200 upvotes – 78 comments

World model on million-length video and language with RingAttention

https://largeworldmodel.github.io/

2 years ago

196 upvotes – 60 comments

Andrej Karpathy Departs OpenAI

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-researcher-andrej-karpathy-departs

2 years ago

182 upvotes – 37 comments

Amazon Sued over Prime Video Ads: Class-Action Suit Alleges Deception

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/amazon-prime-video-ads-lawsuit-class-action-1235910694/

2 years ago

173 upvotes – 147 comments

Ask HN: What are some actual use cases of AI Agents right now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39373662

2 years ago

169 upvotes – 149 comments

A love letter to Apache Echarts

https://alicegg.tech//2024/02/14/echarts.html

2 years ago

166 upvotes – 58 comments

We sped up time series by 20-30x

https://www.rerun.io/blog/primary-query-caching

2 years ago

165 upvotes – 19 comments

Juvenile great apes love to tease and annoy their elders, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/14/juvenile-great-apes-love-to-tease-and-annoy-their-elders-study-finds

2 years ago

164 upvotes – 75 comments

What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientists have an answer

https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2024/02/08/geoscientists-discover-what-turned-snowball-earth-sturtian-ice-age-earthbyte.html

2 years ago

159 upvotes – 186 comments

Tai chi reduces blood pressure better than aerobic exercise

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/02/14/1231232197/tai-chi-aerobics-exercise-blood-pressure-hypertension-mindfulness

2 years ago

157 upvotes – 141 comments

Just one bad packet can bring down a vulnerable DNS server thanks to DNSSEC

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/13/dnssec_vulnerability_internet/

2 years ago

155 upvotes – 176 comments

Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show

https://gizmodo.com/your-ai-girlfriend-is-a-data-harvesting-horror-show-1851253284

2 years ago

146 upvotes – 194 comments

Nginx Security Advisory

https://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2024/NW6MNW34VZ6HDIHH5YFBIJYZJN7FGNAV.html

2 years ago

144 upvotes – 25 comments

Show me the prompt

https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/prompt/

2 years ago

142 upvotes – 28 comments

Pure Bash Web Server

https://github.com/dzove855/Bash-web-server

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 67 comments

Duolingo Sucks, Now What?

https://ruhua-langblr.tumblr.com/post/739086003139149824/duolingo-sucks-now-what-a-guide

2 years ago

132 upvotes – 136 comments

Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell

https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 102 comments

Why is Common Lisp not the most popular programming language?

https://daninus14.github.io/posts/Why-is-Common-Lisp-not-the-Most-Popular-Programming-Language.html

2 years ago

130 upvotes – 332 comments

Disrupting malicious uses of AI by state-affiliated threat actors

https://openai.com/blog/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-by-state-affiliated-threat-actors

2 years ago

125 upvotes – 84 comments

Portal (2021)

http://macintoshgarden.org/games/portal

2 years ago

124 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Frontend Fuzzy Search

https://github.com/m31coding/fuzzy-search

2 years ago

120 upvotes – 35 comments

The happiest kids in the world have social safety nets

https://www.mother.ly/parenting/social-safety-net/

2 years ago

119 upvotes – 174 comments

Suikoden and Eiyuden Chronicles creator Yoshitaka Murayama has died

https://www.ign.com/articles/suikoden-creator-and-eiyuden-chronicle-lead-yoshitaka-murayama-has-died

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 38 comments

Linux/ELF .eh_frame from the bottom up

https://www.corsix.org/content/elf-eh-frame

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 11 comments

LineageOS 21 Released

https://lineageos.org/Changelog-28/

2 years ago

104 upvotes – 26 comments

Grade inflation at UC Riverside, and institutional pressures for easier grading

http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2024/02/grade-inflation-at-uc-riverside-and.html

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 200 comments

Show HN: You don't need to adopt new tools for LLM observability

https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry-js

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 23 comments

U.S. Internet leaked years of internal, customer emails

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/02/u-s-internet-leaked-years-of-internal-customer-emails/

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 35 comments

Memory Profiling: Introduction

https://easyperf.net/blog/2024/02/12/Memory-Profiling-Part1

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 18 comments

How to make your anger work for you

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/24034907/use-anger-productively-motivation-problem-solving

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 90 comments

Holepunch Unveils P2P Platform "Pear Runtime"

https://pears.com/news/holepunch-unveils-groundbreaking-open-source-peer-to-peer-app-development-platform-pear-runtime/

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 52 comments

US Military notifies 20k of data breach after cloud email leak

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/department-defense-data-breach-microsoft-cloud-email/

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 25 comments

Internal tools often make bad startup ideas

https://philosophicalhacker.substack.com/p/internal-tools-often-make-bad-startup

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 112 comments

Show HN: FoldMation – Interactive origami learning and creation

https://foldmation.com

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 21 comments

UFO: A UI-Focused AI Agent for Windows OS Interaction

https://github.com/microsoft/UFO

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 62 comments
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